Preface signed: New-Jersey, Trenton, March 25, 1745. Tho. Cadwalader

"The copy in the Library of the [Philadelphia] College of Physicians has inserted a suppressed 'Preface,' which is paged iii.-vi., and begins 'It was neither Thirst after Gain, nor the Desire of Applause, but the Welfare of Mankind alone, which excited me to publish this Essay.' The published Preface is entirely re-written ..."--Hildeburn

"Cadwalader ... left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin ... to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum which had been distilled through lead pipes. The 'extraordinary case' ... refers to a case of osteomalacia. Cadwalader's autopsy of the victim's body is one of the earliest recorded in the United States ... [This work] is probably the first medical book containing significant original research to be published by an American physician in America"--Garrison-Morton

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Turned (i.e. horizontal) chainlines; cf. ESTC, which reports 4to format

Film 633 reel 21 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 21, no. 380)

Evans

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania

Miller, C.W. Franklin

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.)

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.

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NLM copy bound in c19 half brown goatskin

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